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pass it and we'll be done. we'll go home for christmas. not so much. president obama did hand them a plan as treasury secretary tim geithner made a special trip all the way to john boehner's office on capitol hill. he delivered the plan to speaker boehner, a plan pretty much identical to the one president obama just won the election on. you might have thought that would have been leading, the problem would have been solved. not so much. >> flabbergasted. i looked at him, you can't be serious. i've just never seen anything like it. >> so when you said you wanted to be led, you just wanted a plan, that was a joke? so the white house agreed, then, no more leading, that was not what their partners in the house of representatives wanted. instead, white house and boehner entered into intense lengthy negotiations. and by the end of them they seemed really close to a deal. the white house had agreed to cut their tax ask by about 400 billion, to increase their spending cuts by another 400 billion and only ask for about half as much stimulus. they moved toward b
pass it and we'll be done. we'll go home for christmas. not so much. president obama did hand them a plan as treasury secretary tim geithner made a special trip all the way to john boehner's office on capitol hill. he delivered the plan to speaker boehner, a plan pretty much identical to the one president obama just won the election on. you might have thought that would have been leading, the problem would have been solved. not so much. >> flabbergasted. i looked at him, you can't be...
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action on whatever the senate can pass, but the senate first must act. " president obama returned early from hawaii today, still pushing to extend tax cuts for the middle class, but raise rates on the well-off. aides said he made phone calls last night to speaker boehner and house minority leader nancy pelosi, as well as senator reid and his opposite number, minority leader mitch mcconnell. but today, mcconnell gave no indication of movement. >> last night i told the president we'd be happy to look at whatever he proposes, but the truth is we're coming up against a hard deadline here, and as i said this is a conversation we should have had months ago. and republicans aren't about to write a blank check for anything senate democrats put forward just because we find ourselves at the edge of the cliff. >> reporter: adding to the urgency, treasury secretary timothy geithner warned he'll have to begin taking "extraordinary measures" to postpone a government default. the government is on track to hit its borrowing limit on monday, he said with no prospect of congressional action to raise the
action on whatever the senate can pass, but the senate first must act. " president obama returned early from hawaii today, still pushing to extend tax cuts for the middle class, but raise rates on the well-off. aides said he made phone calls last night to speaker boehner and house minority leader nancy pelosi, as well as senator reid and his opposite number, minority leader mitch mcconnell. but today, mcconnell gave no indication of movement. >> last night i told the president we'd...
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this was russia's response to president obama's anticorruption law. it denies russian officials from getting u.s. visas if they were associated with human rights violations. >> it's very tragic that these children are potentially going to fall victim to really just senseless politics. >> reporter: lauren koch with the national council for adoptions says with 700,000 russian orphans, the children are the ones caught in the political web. >> most of them have been matched with children. they consider these children part of their families already. they have introduced, you know, them via pictures and other methods to their siblings here in the united states. and it's really heartbreaking. >> bring it over here so we can see it. >> reporter: a heartbreak that could become a reality for the fong family who can do nothing but wait, watch and hope. >> we're the fong family. we want to provide a home to just at least one boy from russia and, you know, we have a home, we have a lovely family. we're hoping that all this can move forward and this will be the las
this was russia's response to president obama's anticorruption law. it denies russian officials from getting u.s. visas if they were associated with human rights violations. >> it's very tragic that these children are potentially going to fall victim to really just senseless politics. >> reporter: lauren koch with the national council for adoptions says with 700,000 russian orphans, the children are the ones caught in the political web. >> most of them have been matched with...
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even lyndon johnson couldn't get a lot of his domestic stuff pass when he had two wars going but obama's said well, i can do it because, he didn't say these words, because i'm special. it was a real insight into his character, which has a great deal of i would call over self-confidence, hubris and great pride in himself and in my view a sense that he doesn't really understand how the world works, which makes him an amateur. >> you report on that conversation that took place in the historians meeting and he said that he proposed a new term for his term in office and that was in a foundation. >> yes, and doris kearns goodwin who is one of the historians there said, i don't think that's a good idea mr. president to call it the new foundation, your administration. he said well why not? she said that sounds like a woman's girdle to me. >> go to great lengths to talk about one of the historians at that table but then you went to dinner somewhere outside of new york are outside of the city, so you wouldn't be recognized. >> all these historians were sworn to secrecy. they were not supposed to r
even lyndon johnson couldn't get a lot of his domestic stuff pass when he had two wars going but obama's said well, i can do it because, he didn't say these words, because i'm special. it was a real insight into his character, which has a great deal of i would call over self-confidence, hubris and great pride in himself and in my view a sense that he doesn't really understand how the world works, which makes him an amateur. >> you report on that conversation that took place in the...
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barack obama doesn't seem to know how to do that. he, in fact, in private a very introverted person who doesn't reach out beyond a small group of chicago operatives whom he's brought with him to the white house. >> host: oprah had tried to ignore the ominous change in tone. as barack obama's inauguration drew near, oprah's calls to michelle went unreturned. instead, oprah heard from the newly-appointed white house ceremonies coordinator who told oprah that she needed to talk to him first about the interview. what's more, she had to run her interview questions past jeff stevens, deputy speech writer, for prior approval. it was a pain as far as pa was concerned said a high-ranking executive at harpo studios. oprah doesn't like having to put up with mid-level clerks. >> guest: right. oprah expected that as a result of her role during the democratic pri pairs where she played a pivotal role in helping obama get the nomination and wresting it away from hillary clinton that she was going to be an important adviser to president obama. and,
barack obama doesn't seem to know how to do that. he, in fact, in private a very introverted person who doesn't reach out beyond a small group of chicago operatives whom he's brought with him to the white house. >> host: oprah had tried to ignore the ominous change in tone. as barack obama's inauguration drew near, oprah's calls to michelle went unreturned. instead, oprah heard from the newly-appointed white house ceremonies coordinator who told oprah that she needed to talk to him first...
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and that is the way in which we remember this passed through the charred memories of jim crow, of slavery and even today in the 21st century a collectivcollectiv e imagination of what racism really is, what it was really about, is about everything that happened not in places like new york. new yorkers knew better, right? but if you live in des moines, iowa, if you live elsewhere in the heartland, you may not think that the north had any part in this post-emancipation story. this is a slide from the chicago race riots of 1919 and here you see the police arriving on the scene of a young black man who was literally stoned to death after a 13-year-old boy had been murdered at a beach because he swam across an obvious color line. many people lost their lives. many african-americans ended up homeless. but this is a culminating moment. you described in the idyllic racially integrated hyde park that is now the home of the first family, the bombs are going off two years before this happened. what is going on in chicago? >> you know was fascinating when i read this because cb moten johnson, michell
and that is the way in which we remember this passed through the charred memories of jim crow, of slavery and even today in the 21st century a collectivcollectiv e imagination of what racism really is, what it was really about, is about everything that happened not in places like new york. new yorkers knew better, right? but if you live in des moines, iowa, if you live elsewhere in the heartland, you may not think that the north had any part in this post-emancipation story. this is a slide from...
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obama, when he wanted his health care bill passed, waited until the midnight hour to work with the democratics to pass the bill, they would not pass the bill because it had payments for abortion and things like that -- host: where do you think this is going to go? caller: it will go to the midnight hour, and that republicans will concede they do not have anything else. they will kick the can down the obama has not shown the leadership that he showed, last caller. it is a matter of spending. the government has gotten out of control in washington, d.c. both parties are guilty. this last president as the most gelt, and certainly bush also had his problems with spending, but if i was a republican senator, i would not vote for anything without at least a $6 trillion tax cut, and that would include wages of our government employees. i hate to say that, but they have to take a hard stand, and that is where i stand here fiscal cliff, it looks like we are coming. host: happy new year. a live picture inside the u.s. capitol, expecting the possibility of senators coming out to speak after their party's c
obama, when he wanted his health care bill passed, waited until the midnight hour to work with the democratics to pass the bill, they would not pass the bill because it had payments for abortion and things like that -- host: where do you think this is going to go? caller: it will go to the midnight hour, and that republicans will concede they do not have anything else. they will kick the can down the obama has not shown the leadership that he showed, last caller. it is a matter of spending. the...
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obama administration said if you pass it in the house and september passed it, obama would veto it anyway. they are so far apart. this i am flying back from hawaii and see if i can bring them back together. they are far apart as they have been. >> kelly: why are they having the meeting? because of the talk and rhetoric is ramping up and the agreement is going down. i mean, for example, senate majority leader harry reid is name calling and calling john boehner a dictator . this is what he had to say. >> the american people i don't think the house representative is operating without the house of representative. it is being operated with a dictatorship of the speaker not allowing the vast majority of the house and representatives to get what they want. >> that sounds ridiculous f. it was a dictatorship boehner would have gotten that vote and he couldn' get the vote. what we should do honestly guys, is swan dive ov the fiscal cliff. let president obama own the fiscal cliff. it should be called the obama cliff. >> julia: people know how much they would have to pay. folks on the man on the stre
obama administration said if you pass it in the house and september passed it, obama would veto it anyway. they are so far apart. this i am flying back from hawaii and see if i can bring them back together. they are far apart as they have been. >> kelly: why are they having the meeting? because of the talk and rhetoric is ramping up and the agreement is going down. i mean, for example, senate majority leader harry reid is name calling and calling john boehner a dictator . this is what he...